If you find yourself hunting for shortcuts amid a chaos of icons on your desktop, use these tips to restore order to the Windows backdrop. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as ...

I move around my Windows desktop very quickly, opening apps and windows with rapid speed, and because of that, I find ...

A year ago, when I turned on my Vista machine for the first time, it didn’t take long to realize that unless I mastered keyboard and desktop shortcuts I would be wasting a lot of computing time ...

Q: I have many icons on my desktop. Some have a little white box in the lower left hand corner and in this box is a black curved arrow pointing to the upper right hand corner. What are these little ...

One of the oldest and most used features on Windows is the ability to create shortcuts to files and programs stored on your PC. Creating a shortcut is not the same thing as moving the program or file ...

If it seems like the desktop shortcuts on your Windows 7 keep disappearing, you're not hallucinating. Windows 7 automatically deletes broken and network shortcuts if there are too many. Here's how to ...

Q: I recently migrated from my old Windows 8.1 PC to my new Windows 10 PC. I moved my data files using a product called PC Mover Pro and that seems to have worked pretty well. I had many shortcuts ...

Chuck Miller wrote to say that when he tries to drag a favoritedesktop shortcut Icon onto his taskbar, it won’t stay there — itremains on the desktop. OK, let’s start at the beginning: Why put an icon ...

In the November 2008 issue, page 105, I suggested ways to easily hide desktop shortcuts of confidential material. I suggested moving them off the desktop, out of sight to the Start menu, which only ...